HOUSE OF CARDS

VERSE 1:
Look, I was raised in the sewers, surrounded by rats/
every time I tried to leave, fucking cunts pulled me back/
seeing friends sucking stella cans, smoking the crack/
drinking in squats, watching grown men doing smack/

14 year old girls rotting away, on their backs/
sucking off old men, for a line when they cat/
when it rained on the blocks, we'd all hide in the flats/
if a neighbour would complain, then a neighbour got slapped/

Hoodlums, with no purpose, thinking life is fucking worthless/
all workers, shotters, jackers, robbers, all on fucking earners/
all on the run, I was born on the run/
APAC forever, fuck the pigs, still calling a cunts/

when it's hot, we'd swim in the Thames, belling my friends/
tell 'em bring the wimin swimming, I've got the cider and a tens/
thinking that we're winning, grinning, I'm riding all her friends/
all singing, drinking, binging on cider in the end/

The sun set, and it was back on the blocks/
ballsing up the weed and wraps, hiding knives in our socks/
while cops would try and cotch, see 'em hide in their spots/
doing surveillance, looking bait, if I'm riding or not/

Stabbings on a regular, tell the kids "tell me what the fucking pigs said to ya"/ shooting up the messenger/
Youngers looking like pussy's, olders all cracked out/
shitty fucking area, I'm never going back now/

CHORUS:
How can I forget, how can I say/
I got, love for the place, I remember the pain/
But I, left this shit, when they locked me away/
I feel 'em pulling me back, they're pulling again/

'cos we stacked it like a house of cards/
Kings with Aces, living with Queens, with out a hearts/
jokers looking like fiends, a joke with out a laugh, can't keep living in the past/ So i'm blowing down this mother fucking house of cards/

VERSE 2:
Now I'm older, in reflection, looking back/
I can't help but laugh about the cats, and all the slags/
yeah we had some good times, pockets looking fat/
West End, every weekend, after shifting all the wraps/

Even loved the violence, yeah gotta laugh at all the scraps/
But Yellow signs for a mile, we weren't laughing over that/
shitting ourselves, while CID, raided all our flats/
Party's every time we hear bust case, still loving that/

Every one was getting older, while the streets were getting colder/
looking over shoulders, 'cos soldiers had 9s in their holsters/
looking to pop, this ain't hip hop, this is beef with Claydon on the block/
now he's doing life for murder, feeling lucky I'm not!/

'Cos people knew, whether they liked me or not/
that I was about it, now I'm retired, living life on the top/
Lived life on the clock, done double the time that I got/
so I'm screaming “free all my boys, doing life on the block”/
"WHAT"

CHORUS:
How can I forget, how can I say/
I got, love for the place, I remember the pain/
But I, left this shit, when they locked me away/
I feel 'em pulling me back, they're pulling again/

'cos we stacked it like a house of cards/
Kings with Aces, living with Queens, with out a hearts/
jokers looking like fiends, a joke with out a laugh, can't keep living in the past/
So i'm blowing down this mother fucking house of cards/

VERSE: 3
I'm 28 now, stacking for a mortgage/
looking at me back then, who'd have fucking thought it/
the roads are dead to me, so I fuck 'em like I'm morbid/
a necrophiliac, I'm never looking back, yeah of course it's/

In my heart, my soul, my blood, my goal/
is to pass, my all, on and flood these roads/
for the youngsta in a flat surrounded by fiends/
be smart, have heart kid, and follow your dreams/
"Peace"

CHORUS:
How can I forget, how can I say/
I got, love for the place, I remember the pain/
But I, left this shit, when they locked me away/
I feel 'em pulling me back, they're pulling again/

'cos we stacked it like a house of cards/
Kings with Aces, living with Queens, with out a hearts/
jokers looking like fiends, a joke with out a laugh, can't keep living in the past/
So i'm blowing down this mother fucking house of cards/